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Jan 11, 2021

Night-Vision Revolution: Less Weight, Improved Performance

Posted by in categories: energy, military

Leveraging new tech, DARPA aims for night-vision goggles the size and weight of regular eyeglasses.

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Jan 11, 2021

DARPA Selects Teams to Capture Potable Water from Air

Posted by in categories: climatology, engineering, finance, government, military

Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) performers aim to meet clean water needs of deployed troops, even in austere environments.

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Jan 11, 2021

DARPA Successfully Demonstrates, Transitions Advanced RF Networking Program

Posted by in categories: internet, military, robotics/AI

Field tests validate tech that automatically links diverse radio waveforms in contested environments.

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Jan 11, 2021

DARPA Gremlins Project Completes Third Flight Test Deployment

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Next capture attempts scheduled to occur in spring of 2021

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Jan 8, 2021

Brett Vaughan — U.S. Navy Chief AI Officer and AI Portfolio Manager, Office of Naval Research

Posted by in categories: government, military, robotics/AI, satellites, surveillance

U.S. Navy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, and AI Portfolio Manager, Office of Naval Research.


Brett Vaughan is the U.S. Navy Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and AI Portfolio Manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

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Jan 7, 2021

Extinct Predator Cave Lions Could be Brought Back to Life

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Ten thousands of years ago, the cave lion Panthera spelaea, a very intriguing subspecies of the modern-day lion which thrived on the Eurasian plateau, went extinct for reasons unknown.

A powerful ruler of the European steppe, the cave lion roamed territories from Spain to the far-off east of Russia. Fossils and bones have been dug out even in Alaska.

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Jan 6, 2021

Army research leads to more effective training model for robots

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

Multi-domain operations, the Army’s future operating concept, requires autonomous agents with learning components to operate alongside the warfighter. New Army research reduces the unpredictability of current training reinforcement learning policies so that they are more practically applicable to physical systems, especially ground robots.

These learning components will permit to reason and adapt to changing battlefield conditions, said Army researcher Dr. Alec Koppel from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory.

The underlying adaptation and re-planning mechanism consists of learning-based policies. Making these policies efficiently obtainable is critical to making the MDO operating concept a reality, he said.

Jan 4, 2021

Coronavirus reaches end of earth as first outbreak hits Antarctica

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, military

SANTIAGO (Reuters) — The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine staff from a remote research station surrounded by ocean and icebergs.

Jan 2, 2021

SpaceX wins $150 million contract to launch Space Development Agency satellites

Posted by in categories: military, satellites

WASHINGTON — SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon’s space agency, the Defense Department announced Dec. 31.

The contract is to launch a mix of small and medium spacecraft of different sizes that the Space Development Agency is acquiring from multiple vendors. That includes 20 data-relay satellites known as the Transport Layer and the other eight are missile-warning satellites known as the Tracking Layer.

SpaceX will launch these satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Dec 31, 2020

Electric airplanes are getting tantalizingly close to a commercial breakthrough

Posted by in categories: military, sustainability

For $140000, you can fly your own electric airplane. The Slovenian company Pipistrel sells the Alpha Electro, the first electric aircraft certified as airworthy by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2018. It’s a welterweight at just 811 pounds (368 kilograms), powered by a 21 kWh battery pack—about one-fifth the power of what you’d find in a Tesla Model S. For about 90 minutes, the pilot training plane will keep you and a companion aloft without burning a drop of fossil fuel.

Those of us without a pilot license will have to wait longer for emissions-free flight—but not much. For all its challenges, 2020 has proven to be a milestone year for electric aviation. Electric aircraft set new distance records, replicated short commercial flight paths, won over the US military, and attracted buyers from big airlines.

And in June, European regulators granted another of Pipistrel’s aircraft, the Velis Electro, the world’s first electric “type certification,” deeming the entire aircraft design safe and ready for mass production (airworthiness only certifies individual aircraft).